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Monday, April 21, 2014

I went out to Four Winds Renaissance Faire a few weeks back and was
able to get a lot of pictures of the jousting tournament. I figured
that I would use them as part of a stock pack. When I was going back
through them, this one stuck out from all the rest. This was taken
right after the melee battle.

I've been experimenting with my lens (55-250mm) by taking pictures of the
neighborhood critters. I've been putting out bird seed for the birds,
and now have a legion of squirrels up on the porch every day. They now
have gotten somewhat friendly and I am able to stand outside the door
and take pictures of them. The new lens really helps since I can get
really good closeup shots.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Trana wanted me to go back and redo one of her Belgrave House covers to
see if it would help generate some more sales. We decided to experiment
with the look a little to make it stand out from her other romances
since this one is more sexy/sensuous than the others. She really likes
it, so we may go back and redo the other ones as well at a later date.

I
didn't have to do much with the model aside from adding extra facial
hair and some chest hair to the man. I added a bait of hair to the
woman to help cover up a section where I wasn't able to remove the
original background (dark grey) cleanly. I blurred the models just
slightly to give them a softer look and help them fit into the
background better. The font was the hardest to find since I wanted to
use something that looked like old-time script to match the setting in
the book.

This one started out as an entry for the DDRC Logo Contest last year. I
finished it and entered it in on January 15, literally a year ago. I
was contacted right before Christmas letting me know that I won and just
needed to make a few little weeks. The original version is live on the
site right now, and the updated version should be up in a few days or
so.

The full color version will be used for the website,
newsletters & stickers. The grayscale & inverted will be also
be used on t-shirts, as well as anything that cannot be printed in
color.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Secret Satan Exchange 2013 gift for ramsesmelendeze | Hosted by dA-MorgueWhat's
Christmas without a visit from the Krampus? What's a Krampus you ask?
Back in the day, long before Christianity, naughty children were
visited by the Krampus during the Krampus Festival (first week of
December). After the creation of Santa, he pretty much rode
shot-gun with Santa and would punish the naughty by either licking them
with his very long tongue or whipping them with birch branches. Eventually
he was replaced with Santa giving you coal if you were bad, but he's
been making a comeback the last 10 years or so. I first learned of the
Krampus when watching the Very Venture Christmas Special (GO TEAM
VENTURE!).

I had way more fun with this one than I should have.
The base model used is my husband, who I harassed for close to two weeks
before I could get him to agree to pose for some stock images. He
wasn't overly thrilled at first, but as work progressed he liked it.
The tongue is his, as well is the nose, ear, teeth & nails. I don't
think I will be putting u pa stick pack for this one.

'Gruss vom
Krampus' is German for "Greetings From Krampus". It was one of the
standard greetings on the Krumpus cards given out during the festival.

Cover for T.M.'s yearly Christmas short story. It took a bit to figure
out what to do with this one, since she originally wanted the panther to
be walking beside the woman. It's hard to find panther stock without
pay a few hundred for it on some of the other big stock sites. I
eventually came across the one we used and had it reflected off the
moon. I also had difficulty with getting the background image dark
without pixelating bright spots, which is why I ended up using the
Photoshop action to get the base color set and then adjust from there.